Helping the Niger Delta

The Presidential monitoring committee on the Niger Delta Development Commission NDDC draws its mandate from Article 21 of the NDDC Act which empowers it to effectively monitor the commissions fund management and budget implementation to ensure that they produced the desired result. According to the Information and communication Minister the community has so far submitted no fewer than five reports and on its activities. SOUNDBITE: The President is quite satisfied with the work they are doing and they have been encouraged to stick clearly to their terms of reference to ensure that we have quality report, for the president is fully satisfied with the report they have presented. Equally satisfied that President Yar'adua has put the lingering issue of the Niger Delta on the furn burner, the community chairman has cautioned that the situation in the volatile oil producing region should no longer be taken lightly. SOUNDBITE: We know in the presidential monitoring report from our interaction with everywhere that we know that the Niger Delta is the achilles heels of this country, we move forward or move backward by that we rise or fall by that particular issue and I am happy that Mr. President understands it, the way President Obasanjo was pushing it and now carried it to the higher levels to ensure that this problem is resolved quickly. Many hope that the community's complaint about non payment of the statutory contributions to the NDDC by the Federal Government and other interested parties and President Yar'aduas demand that the commission comply with due process in the award of contracts are being taken seriously in the appropriate quarters.

Submission | September 7, 2007

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